Business Briefs

June 30, 1985

Patrick R. Ledford of Lauderhill has been promoted to investment analyst at Landmark Banking Corp. Ledford joined Landmark in July 1984, and has been serving as assistant investment analyst. In his new position, Ledford will be responsible for the bank`s $800 million investment portfolio.

Phase 1 of The Shoppes of Arrowhead is nearing its final stages of development. The 43,000-square-foot shopping center is just south of State Road 84 on University Drive in Davie.

Security Federal Savings and Loan has just signed a long-term lease for space in the center and MarMel Associates, the developer, is completing negotiations with several other major tenants.

Landmark also has promoted Jamie E. Edgemon of Plantation to assistant vice president. Edgemon joined Landmark in May 1983 and has been serving as manager of the general ledger function from the corporate perspective.

Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Chamber of Commerce, west division, will conduct an open forum, with a panel composed of executives of the News and Sun-Sentinel Co., including Tom O`Donnell, president and publisher, and various company vice presidents.

This program will be at the Holiday Inn West, 5100 N. State Road 7, on Tuesday, July 9, at 7:30 a.m.

Breakfast charge is $3 per person. Members and guests are welcome.

Sunrise Hospital, South Florida`s first free-standing comprehensive medical rehabilitation facility, has opened its second nursing unit, which is able to accommodate 54 patients. The hospital now has 108 beds.

Sunrise Hospital, at 4399 Nob Hill Road, is a subsidiary of Rehab Hospital Services Corp., the nation`s leading provider of comprehensive medical rehabilitation and a subsidiary of National Medical Enterprises, the world`s second largest health care provider.

Medical Recruiters of America has become a new tenant of the Landmark Center in Sunrise, at University Drive and West Oakland Park Boulevard.

The firm is a 10-year-old, Fort Lauderdale-based health-care search and placement agency servicing hospitals. The Landmark Center-Sunrise office will have a staff of 25.